General Coach Candidate News

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17 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

For Pete’s sake Chris say the name!!

yeah @Chris007, say my name b*tch!...

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1 hour ago, LamarCheeks said:

Blech -- Dick the Bruiser is a former Toiletmaker! 

He lived next door in Indianapolis to a good friend of mine.  Nicest guy in the neighborhood.  Personally took care of his property and regularly walked his dog.  

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1 minute ago, BehindTheBench said:

I would 1 million percent take Woody over a D2 coach. And I loathe woody 

Well let’s just all be thankful the only decisions you ever made around Assembly Hall are where to park and Chick-fil-A or a hot dog.

[Hoosierfan1901 8,054]

Benjamin Matthew McCollum come on down!

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4 minutes ago, sirhoosierlot said:

Yeah it’s Dolson’s fault that guy doesn’t want to coach here. 

It’s literally the AD’s job to attract coaches. He has a ton of positives to sell to candidates. If the best that he can attract to IU is a D2 coach with 1 year under his belt in a mediocre mid major conference, that says a lot about his abilities. He doesn’t get any excuses this time around. 

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13 minutes ago, BehindTheBench said:

You don’t fire Woody mid season to hire some guy D2 guy from Drake. I’ll say, my one source was someone in the athletic office. As of weeks ago, heck, even over a month ago, it was Brad. Up until about two weeks ago, it was Brad. He’s since gone eerily quiet, which I assumed was a good thing. Apparently he went quiet out of shame. If this is true, what an utter failure on Scott’s part. Brad was literally in the bag. 

Others have gone silent too. Goodman has been wrong a lot. Remember when he said we were hiring Chris Holman last go around? Stay the course:)

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11 minutes ago, Trish said:

We will find out about us being a football school this year. Dolson’s career will indeed be on the line here. 

Sigh. Eye roll. Yawn. As if Glass didn’t do a terrible job and get a raise.

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12 minutes ago, BehindTheBench said:

You don’t fire Woody mid season to hire some guy D2 guy from Drake. I’ll say, my one source was someone in the athletic office. As of weeks ago, heck, even over a month ago, it was Brad. Up until about two weeks ago, it was Brad. He’s since gone eerily quiet, which I assumed was a good thing. Apparently he went quiet out of shame. If this is true, what an utter failure on Scott’s part. Brad was literally in the bag. 

That’s simply not believable. Honestly, the whole squabbling over a couple million here or there or Brad trying to make up his mind for four weeks just isn’t something that makes the slightest sense.
 

It’s more absurd than the notion he’d actually still be Scott’s guy. It’s either done, or it was maybe a week at most of negotiation and we moved on. There is zero chance this has gone back and forth for this long with Stevens. 

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Trilly thinks this is a “trial balloon” and not a done deal to see how fans react. Take that as you will 

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Crash course intro to McCollum: 

 

 

• Episode 182: Ben McCollum, The Defense Will Show You What To Do and Love Your Player's Strength (2021)
• Ben McCollum on PNR Pace and Angles, Player Constraints, and Stats that Matter (2022)
• Long form article: Meet Ben McCollum, the Division II coach winning titles and turning heads across college basketball (2021)

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30 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Time to bully Dolson on social media into not hiring McCollum. 

This is how we end up with Brownell.

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2 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

Well let’s just all be thankful the only decisions you ever made around Assembly Hall are where to park and Chick-fil-A or a hot dog.

Lol so much I could say, and want to say, but I’ll bite my tongue and just say I hope you’re right on McCollum

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I gotta believe if it wasn’t Brad @JerryYeagley23 would have been here a  long time ago to tell everyone to give up the wishful thinking. He’s been tagged 1,000 times over the last month. 

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Yall - Dolson hasn’t kept this quiet the whole time for Goodman to break it. Cmon. 

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14 minutes ago, MrBBall said:

He better increase that pace because no one wants to see pace of play like old man Bennett

Winning cures everything. He wins and I could care less how he does it. As long as he wins. Pretty simple. 

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I think we all need therapy on here because we are losing it. How about let Dolson do his job and not freak out after every tweet that comes out. Also if a guy is hired that you don't like nobody is making you watch IU play so either back the coach or don't watch anymore. I would really hate if we hired Beard but I would have to make a choice and I probably would still support the program.

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The tweet said "one of" the candidates. Get a grip. 

McCollum must not like who he works with...

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15 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

FYI, odds have moved a bit.  See link below.  The BetOnline format makes the uploaded picture kinda hard to read, but if you click on the image it will expand and become larger.

https://www.betonline.ag/sportsbook/futures-and-props/ncaam-specials/coaches

 

Interesting Brad isn't even on here.  I'd think someone wants to bet him and the book will of course take their $.

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Everyone needs to relax. We still have no idea who the coach is going to be yet...

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17 minutes ago, Hoosier987 said:

Goodman mentioned this yesterday. Said if we were to hire McCollum we would need to surround him with excellent assistants “if he were to make it at Indiana.”

yikes 

The idea that the bumbling IU admin could pick out assistants better than McCollum himself is so comically ridiculous that it could only come from a guy like Goodman.